Why not Hackage? :) On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Francesco Ariis wrote:

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 01:44:39AM +0530, Harendra Kumar wrote:

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Some time back I wrote a small Haskell library to parse the old MS excel format (.xls). There were libraries to parse ".xlsx" but there was none for ".xls". I uploaded it on github (https://github.com/harendra-kumar/xls) so that others looking for something similar can find and use it.

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I think you should upload it to hackage anyway. There are plenty of work-in-progress packages there, it's not like "it's on Hackage" indicates "production ready", and it would lower the barrier to adoption and contribution. And if you don't want to maintain it yourself, maybe you can find someone who does. On Sep 11, 2016 2:10 AM, "Harendra Kumar" wrote:

Even though it works perfectly well for my use cases, I wanted to carefully review and also fix a couple of todos before pushing to Hackage. But never got time to do that yet, its been more than 6 months I wrote this. I thought I will at least let people know in case someone is looking for something like this.

-harendra

On 11 September 2016 at 04:54, Theodore Lief Gannon wrote:

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Why not Hackage? :)

On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Francesco Ariis wrote:

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On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 01:44:39AM +0530, Harendra Kumar wrote:

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Some time back I wrote a small Haskell library to parse the old MS excel format (.xls). There were libraries to parse ".xlsx" but there was none for ".xls". I uploaded it on github (https://github.com/harendra-kumar/xls) so that others looking for something similar can find and use it.

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In fact, there's a "Stability" field where you can indicate that it's officially experimental. On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Joachim Durchholz wrote:

Am 11.09.2016 um 02:10 schrieb Harendra Kumar:

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Even though it works perfectly well for my use cases, I wanted to carefully review and also fix a couple of todos before pushing to Hackage. But never got time to do that yet, its been more than 6 months I wrote this.

As Tobias said, you should upload it anyway. Just make sure to properly document what it can and cannot do, and make that information readily accessible to anybody who takes a first look at it in Hackage.

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...and, "it will probably be replaced by something meaningful in the future." But it hasn't, nor has it been removed, and it's a better signal than no signal at all. On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 4:01 AM, Tom Ellis < tom-lists-haskell-cafe-2013@jaguarpaw.co.uk> wrote:

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 03:48:38AM -0700, Theodore Lief Gannon wrote:

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In fact, there's a "Stability" field where you can indicate that it's officially experimental.

Six years ago Simon Marlow pronounced that the "Stability" field was "mostly defunct now, and shouldn't be used"

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3841218/conventions- for-stability-field-of-cabal-packages/3847493#3847493

Tom

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